Re: Very specialised query

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Marc Mamin wrote:
> if your data are mostly static and you have a few mains objects,
> maybe you can have some gain while defining conditional indexes for those plus one for the rest
> and then slicing the query:

Maybe. I thought about doing that. However, I am not convinced that would
be much of a gain, and would require major rewriting of the queries, as
you suggest.

> WHERE (l2.start BETWEEN  l1.start AND l1.end
>          OR
>          l1.start BETWEEN  l2.start AND l2.end
>          )

Yes, that's another way to calculate an overlap. However, it turns out to
not be that fast. The problem is that OR there, which causes a bitmap
index scan, as the leaf of a nested loop join, which can be rather slow.

Matthew

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I'd try being be a pessimist, but it probably wouldn't work anyway.